Tag: EAC
Harnessing the buy side’s potential to develop East Africa’s capital markets
16 Feb 17 NewsA key step in developing a local capital market is to develop the “buy side” – to encourage greater participation of local institutional investors such as pension funds and i...
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14 Feb 17 NewsApplications close on 6 March for tralac’s online course ‘Trade in the 21st Century: legal and policy considerations for Africa’.
Profiled appointment: Paul Noumba Um...
EAC team to review taxes on key goods
14 Feb 17 News
The East African Community has formed a 25-member taskforce to revise the region’s Common External Tariff (CET) and fine-tune the existing rules of origin to boost intra-region...
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13 Feb 17 NewsUnderway in Walvis Bay: African Corridor Management Alliance launch (@snkaringi). Tweet by @heiniesuo: Inaugural meeting of #African #Corridor #Management #Alliance: "We need a con...
Update on EAC integration following the meeting of the EAC Sectoral Council on Trade, Industry, Finance and Investment
13 Feb 17 NewsEABC Trade and Policy Brief as at 10 February 2017
The EAC Sectoral Council on Trade, Industry, Finance and Investment (SCTIFI) held its ordinary meeting from 30th Jan to 3rd...
EPA meeting flops as member states fail to provide trade data
02 Feb 17 News
The East African Community meeting that was to be held this weekend to discuss the Economic Partnership Agreement between the region and the European Union was postponed after se...
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01 Feb 17 NewsStarting today, in Mauritius: ‘Cross-border banking and regulatory reforms: implications for Africa from international experience’
Call for papers: ‘Public economics for dev...
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20 Jan 17 Newstralac’s first newsletter of 2017 is posted: a message from the Executive Director, Trudi Hartzenberg (and more)
The 9th African Union gender pre-summit starts on Sunday: concep...
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18 Jan 17 NewsEurope readies its ‘Marshall Plan’ for Africa (Politico)
If Europe wants to tackle the root causes of the migration crisis, the head of the European Investment Bank says it mu...
EAC gender equality Bill to address gaps in trade
18 Jan 17 NewsEast African Community (EAC) partner states will be legally obliged to collectively promote participation of women and men in regional trade and sustainable economic growth, while ...
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17 Jan 17 NewsFeatured tweet, @UKenyatta: Kenya and Mauritius have agreed to make our two countries the financial and trade hubs for Africa
Diarise: the German-African Business Summit will be h...
EU trade: Defining talks for East Africa presidents for late January
13 Jan 17 NewsThe East African Community Heads of State Summit, which was to be held in the first week of this month, has been pushed to next month, after the regional ministers of trade and Eas...
Importers pile pressure on East African currencies
12 Jan 17 News
The New Year pressure from importers seeking to firm up their dollar positions in a bid to meet their requirements has seen all the regional currencies come under pressure, losin...
India: Reaching out to Africa
11 Jan 17 NewsKenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta could be a willing partner for India to deepen relations
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, one of India’s most important African partners, is here...
The East African Community: Another diplomatic headache for Kenya?
09 Jan 17 NewsThe East African Community has been on top in Africa as a fast rising trading bloc in the past one and half decade, after its resurrection in 1999 by its original members, Kenya, U...
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06 Jan 17 NewsAhead of the AU Summit later this month: commentaries by two candidates for the position of African Union Commission Chairperson
Senegal’s Abdoulaye Bathily: ‘Africa has no fu...
Kiguta: Zeal to work together as EAC has waned over the past two years
06 Jan 17 NewsThe outgoing director-general in charge of trade and customs at the East African Community, Peter Kiguta, spoke to Christabel Ligami about the state of integration and the flow of ...
African trade and integration
04 Jan 17 Themestralac’s primary aim is to help build capacity for government officials, policymakers, and regional organisations to more adequately address the most pressing trade matters facin...
National laws in need of speedy approximation to regional legislation – EALA says
24 Nov 16 NewsRegional legislators now want Partner States to speedily undertake harmonization and approximation of laws in line with those of the Community saying that delays affect the speed w...
Court to rule on whether the EAC EPA should be signed: What lessons for REC Integration Efforts?
23 Nov 16 DiscussionGerhard Erasmus, tralac Associate, comments on the lodgement of a civil suit by a Tanzanian national in the EAC Court of Justice opposing the signing of the EAC Economic Partnershi...